Description

The Heavy Armor Mastery skill improves the effectiveness of Heavy Armors. The more you train the skill, the more efficient the equipped Heavy Armor will be. This skill can cause enemy attacks to bounce off your armor, leaving them open to attack. However, Heavy Armor reduces your DEX greatly.

Tips

At higher levels, Heavy Armor Mastery requires you to be hit by specific types of attacks.

Melee attacks as well as Critical Hits are exceedingly easy to build up if you have a Mount. Go to any low level dungeon like Alby or Ciar and look around for a large Mimic pit. Get on your mount and touch all of the Mimics. They will not awaken immediately. Once you un-mount your pet, the Mimics will simultaneously awaken and aggro you together. It is also possible, if you are Human or Giant, to activate Final Hit or Wind Guard, respectively, after gathering a large group of enemies and let them continually attack you.

Bandits from Commerce is another option, as the enemies use varieties of attacks (Imps use Magic, Goblin Archers use Ranged, and Humans, Goblins, Giants and Ogres use Melee). It would be wise to locate the Rookie types as they deal the lowest damage of all the Bandits.

Alternatively, for all of these, use Dorren's Request as you can simply hit the orbs you need as required.

One can gain all the required points for rank-up by heading to Ceo Island and get knocked around by the Sprites, fulfilling melee, magic, auto-defense, and possibly critical hit training methods.

Ghost of Partholon is another good place to train, as the titular Ghosts dual-wield Longswords and will likely combo you for twice the number of hits. The Python Shamans that usually accompany them will frequently use Lightningbolt on you, as well as physical attacks, and so the only method of training not effectively covered with this method is "Take ranged attacks while wearing heavy armor."